Camping at the beach, raspberry rhubarb tart, and more…
May 11th, 2008How do I fall behind in posting so easily?
First, the picture above is me looking at the Atlantic Ocean. We went camping in the Outer Banks last weekend…our second camping trip of the year. Other than the cold shower I had to take the next morning, all was well on this trip. The boyfriend’s new tent continues to work well…we’ll test it again Memorial Day weekend…we’re supposed to go camping in the mountains (Shenandoah National Park, I think) with some of his friends (and some of their friends).
Here’s the boyfriend and I at our campsite…which sat up on a dune. The ocean is off in the distance…too bad you can’t see it in the picture.

A few weeks ago, I made the raspberry rhubarb tart pictured below as an experiment. I’ve claimed not to like strawberry rhubarb pie for a long time…I’ve always blamed the rhubarb. Recently it occurred to me that it’s probably the cooked strawberry part that I don’t like. So I made the raspberry rhubarb tart and loved it. Rhubarb is fine. If I didn’t know better, I wouldn’t have realized it was in the tart…despite having used as much rhubarb as raspberries.

The last food picture to catch up on for the day are Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies…these have a couple of kinds of chocolate in the dough and I used 4 differents kinds of chips (including white chocolate). These were great…almost like a brownie cookie. The recipe was found in Baking Illustrated. Have I mentioned my love of this cookbook?

That’s it for food for today. I’m sick today but I hope to feel better tomorrow so that I can cook again. I’m thinking about no-knead bread. I should probably hold off on a dessert for a few more days…until more of my birthday cake is gone. The boyfriend made red velvet cake for me.
My birthday itself was good. I had lunch at the Blue Talon Bistro with my dad. Then the boyfriend made dinner for me…grilled ribeye steaks. And the red velvet cake. I got a good number of thoughtful cooking related gifts…including my own copy of Desserts by the Yard and a trifle bowl I spotted and wanted a while ago…now to make the hazelnut and Kahlua trifle recipe I found a couple months ago.
The progress on the house continues slowly. They appeared to be building the kitchen and dining room wrong but that’s been corrected and they’re now framing the second story. I’ll still believe it when I see it that the house will be complete by the end of July.
I need to get the boyfriend to figure out how to add flickr and twitter badges to this page…I think it can be done but it requires his assistance with the plugins for it.
I guess I’m done for the day…two recipes and a real post are pretty good for me.












